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P: 6/18/2008 9:47:18 AM
sna77 Ideal Rock Total Posts: 1,022 Last Post: 7/20/2009 Member Since: 11/2/2006	View from the nose-bleeds last night as the Celtics won #17...
Posted: 6/18/2008 9:47:18 AM

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P: 6/18/2008 10:11:40 AM
diamondseeker2006 Ideal Rock Total Posts: 17,609 Last Post: 11/18/2009 Member Since: 1/11/2006	Congratulations! (I don't follow pro-basketball, though, so I don't even know what they won!) ~~~ When in doubt...don't.~~~
Posted: 6/18/2008 10:11:40 AM

P: 6/18/2008 10:15:41 AM
Skippy123 Ideal Rock Total Posts: 19,828 Last Post: 11/23/2009 Member Since: 11/24/2006	Date: 6/18/2008 10:11:40 AM Author: diamondseeker2006 Congratulations! (I don't follow pro-basketball, though, so I don't even know what they won!) Congrats, I too, don't follow except that my dad tells me all about the games. hehe Looks like a blast!!!! Skippy "The only things that stand between a person and what they want in life are the will to try it, and the faith to believe it's possible" Rich Devos
Posted: 6/18/2008 10:15:41 AM

P: 6/18/2008 10:36:39 AM
dendon Cut Rock Total Posts: 113 Last Post: 11/17/2009 Member Since: 6/16/2005	Way to go Celtics!!!! (born in Boston myself!) D D
Posted: 6/18/2008 10:36:39 AM

P: 6/18/2008 11:10:10 AM
Bia Ideal Rock Total Posts: 4,300 Last Post: 11/23/2009 Member Since: 3/28/2008	Date: 6/18/2008 10:11:40 AM Author: diamondseeker2006 Congratulations! (I don't follow pro-basketball, though, so I don't even know what they won!) After 20+ years, the Celtics CRUSHED the Lakers in the NBA final...something they haven't done in a VERY long time. HUGE victory for Boston (New England really). Wish I were home to celebrate w/ my peeps... ________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it Salvador Dali
Posted: 6/18/2008 11:10:10 AM

P: 6/18/2008 11:53:11 AM
sna77 Ideal Rock Total Posts: 1,022 Last Post: 7/20/2009 Member Since: 11/2/2006	Date: 6/18/2008 11:10:10 AM Author: Bia Date: 6/18/2008 10:11:40 AM Author: diamondseeker2006 Congratulations! (I don't follow pro-basketball, though, so I don't even know what they won!) After 20+ years, the Celtics CRUSHED the Lakers in the NBA final...something they haven't done in a VERY long time. HUGE victory for Boston (New England really). Wish I were home to celebrate w/ my peeps... It was fantastic... A Boston team has not won series clinching game in Boston since 1984... Greatest atmosphere for a sporting event I have ever been to. Couldn't imagine anything could possibly top that (unless the Sox had been home in '04). About 40 minutes before the start of the game when the Celts came out for introductions the crowd was already packed and rocking. ""Beat LA and "Let's Go Celtics" was louder during lay up lines than any chant I have ever heard at a stadium I have ever been to during the actual game (although the "No Means No" chants for Kobe were amusing). There was not a single person not chanting - people that have never said a peep before at a sporting event were screaming at the top of their lungs. In the first quarter when the Celts were LOSING, they went to a timeout and the whole place was cheering and screaming throughout the timeout like we were up by 20. It was absotuletly rocking. However, my favorite part was tons of people lighting up stogies in the 4th quarter in the stadium. Nobody cared. They even showed people on the big screen smoking them and they showed Wyc Grousbeck (Celtics owner) with a stogie in his mouth on the big screen (not sure if his was actually lit). The place smelled like crap, but what a great atmosphere. Afterwards we walked around for an hour or so. Definitely a huge force of cops in riot gear - some were cool and some were aggressive... Saw a couple of windows smashed, but nothing too crazy. Did go to Red' Auerbachs statue in Fanueil Hall, where people had lit some candles around him and put a Celts cap on his head. Everyone was kissing his forehead and putting a lighter up to his bronze cigar. I felt like he was going to come to life at any second and start puffing away. Unbelievable night! Not sure a sporting event will ever be the same after experiencing that.
Posted: 6/18/2008 11:53:11 AM

P: 6/18/2008 11:55:48 AM
wishful Ideal Rock Total Posts: 715 Last Post: 10/21/2009 Member Since: 5/20/2008	WHOOOOOO HOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!! Go CELTICS!!!!!!!! Yay!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ~All things in moderation, including moderation.
Posted: 6/18/2008 11:55:48 AM

P: 6/18/2008 12:00:27 PM
Keepingthefaith21 Ideal Rock Total Posts: 1,300 Last Post: 11/9/2009 Member Since: 8/17/2007	Date: 6/18/2008 11:53:11 AM Author: sna77 Did go to Red' Auerbachs statue in Fanueil Hall, where people had lit some candles around him and put a Celts cap on his head. Everyone was kissing his forehead and putting a lighter up to his bronze cigar. I felt like he was going to come to life at any second and start puffing away. Unbelievable night! Not sure a sporting event will ever be the same after experiencing that. Ahhh this is why I LOVE being a Boston sports nut! *The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you can not do.*
Posted: 6/18/2008 12:00:27 PM

P: 6/18/2008 1:36:26 PM
mercoledi Ideal Rock Total Posts: 2,667 Last Post: 10/5/2009 Member Since: 6/20/2006	Ha! I walked down your block last night and wondered if you were home or at the game! I can't believe you scored tickets, how awesome!
Posted: 6/18/2008 1:36:26 PM

P: 6/18/2008 1:45:29 PM
Miranda Ideal Rock Total Posts: 4,042 Last Post: 9/24/2009 Member Since: 2/18/2006	Date: 6/18/2008 11:53:11 AM Author: sna77 Date: 6/18/2008 11:10:10 AM Author: Bia Date: 6/18/2008 10:11:40 AM Author: diamondseeker2006 Congratulations! (I don't follow pro-basketball, though, so I don't even know what they won!) After 20+ years, the Celtics CRUSHED the Lakers in the NBA final...something they haven't done in a VERY long time. HUGE victory for Boston (New England really). Wish I were home to celebrate w/ my peeps... It was fantastic... A Boston team has not won series clinching game in Boston since 1984... Greatest atmosphere for a sporting event I have ever been to. Couldn't imagine anything could possibly top that (unless the Sox had been home in '04). About 40 minutes before the start of the game when the Celts came out for introductions the crowd was already packed and rocking. ''Beat LA and 'Let's Go Celtics' was louder during lay up lines than any chant I have ever heard at a stadium I have ever been to during the actual game (although the 'No Means No' chants for Kobe were amusing). There was not a single person not chanting - people that have never said a peep before at a sporting event were screaming at the top of their lungs. In the first quarter when the Celts were LOSING, they went to a timeout and the whole place was cheering and screaming throughout the timeout like we were up by 20. It was absotuletly rocking. However, my favorite part was tons of people lighting up stogies in the 4th quarter in the stadium. Nobody cared. They even showed people on the big screen smoking them and they showed Wyc Grousbeck (Celtics owner) with a stogie in his mouth on the big screen (not sure if his was actually lit). The place smelled like crap, but what a great atmosphere. Afterwards we walked around for an hour or so. Definitely a huge force of cops in riot gear - some were cool and some were aggressive... Saw a couple of windows smashed, but nothing too crazy. Did go to Red' Auerbachs statue in Fanueil Hall, where people had lit some candles around him and put a Celts cap on his head. Everyone was kissing his forehead and putting a lighter up to his bronze cigar. I felt like he was going to come to life at any second and start puffing away. Unbelievable night! Not sure a sporting event will ever be the same after experiencing that. hahahaha! Even as a Lakers fan I think this is funny. Clearly, as a Lakers fan, I am not a Kobe fan. Glad to hear you had a great time!
Posted: 6/18/2008 1:45:29 PM

P: 6/18/2008 1:45:42 PM
sna77 Ideal Rock Total Posts: 1,022 Last Post: 7/20/2009 Member Since: 11/2/2006	Date: 6/18/2008 1:36:26 PM Author: mercoledi Ha! I walked down your block last night and wondered if you were home or at the game! I can't believe you scored tickets, how awesome! I lucked out... Bleacher seats were going for about $1k each on ebay, stubhub, etc... I emailed some people on craigslist with some really lowball offers, and one guy took it... How was Washington Sq during the aftermath? People honking, etc?
Posted: 6/18/2008 1:45:42 PM

P: 6/18/2008 1:56:16 PM
mercoledi Ideal Rock Total Posts: 2,667 Last Post: 10/5/2009 Member Since: 6/20/2006	Lucky you! It was pretty quiet; Brookline . We'd been at the public house, and the place was empty, I guess everyone else was watching at home. I didn't even hear the helicopters we alway get for Sox events-maybe because it was downtown? The two most raucous wins I recall were both the year I lived in Allston; the year Brazil won the world cup there was honking/hooting/ hollering at like 7 am! And the first time the Pats won, there was a fire on Comm Ave that blocked traffic; some kids had gone to Marty's, gotten a keg and were pushing it in a shopping cart up and down Comm between the cars dispensing beer directly into the mouths of the drivers! Fun stuff. It's been a great couple of years to live here!
Posted: 6/18/2008 1:56:16 PM

P: 6/18/2008 8:27:20 PM
sna77 Ideal Rock Total Posts: 1,022 Last Post: 7/20/2009 Member Since: 11/2/2006	Date: 6/18/2008 1:56:16 PM Author: mercoledi Lucky you! It was pretty quiet; Brookline . We'd been at the public house, and the place was empty, I guess everyone else was watching at home. I didn't even hear the helicopters we alway get for Sox events-maybe because it was downtown? The two most raucous wins I recall were both the year I lived in Allston; the year Brazil won the world cup there was honking/hooting/ hollering at like 7 am! And the first time the Pats won, there was a fire on Comm Ave that blocked traffic; some kids had gone to Marty's, gotten a keg and were pushing it in a shopping cart up and down Comm between the cars dispensing beer directly into the mouths of the drivers! Fun stuff. It's been a great couple of years to live here! Funny... We tried to watch Game 5 (in LA) at Public House, and Washington Sq Tavern, and neither would turn the TVs on with sound. Oyy. Its the flipping finals! They havent been there in 21 years. Seriously, why even bother having TVs if you arent't going to turn them on for a possible once-in-a-lifetime event....
Posted: 6/18/2008 8:27:20 PM

P: 6/18/2008 10:41:07 PM
Harriet Ideal Rock Total Posts: 11,800 Last Post: 11/19/2009 Member Since: 7/7/2006	Question from a foreigner (myself): Why is "Celtics" pronounced "Seltics" instead of "Keltics?" I'm driving the other half crazy with my 'mispronunciation.' "The greatest experts are only as good as the sum total of what they have seen." (Souren Melikian)
Posted: 6/18/2008 10:41:07 PM

P: 6/19/2008 2:02:27 AM
Dancing Fire Ideal Rock Total Posts: 10,224 Last Post: 11/23/2009 Member Since: 4/3/2004	i was a big Lakers fan in 80's. it is always harder to find a "mind clean" stone than a eye clean stone.
Posted: 6/19/2008 2:02:27 AM

P: 6/19/2008 10:58:43 AM
sna77 Ideal Rock Total Posts: 1,022 Last Post: 7/20/2009 Member Since: 11/2/2006	Date: 6/18/2008 10:41:07 PM Author: Harriet Question from a foreigner (myself): Why is 'Celtics' pronounced 'Seltics' instead of 'Keltics?' I'm driving the other half crazy with my 'mispronunciation.' I have absoluetley no idea... Edit: Google search: http://en.allexperts.com/q/Boston-Celtics-301/pronunciation-Celtics.htm The word "Celts" is derived from ancient Greek "Keltoi" which meant to define the barbarian tribes living between the Danube and the Rhone rivers. The Romans took the word as "Celtae" (pronounced Keltae) and later suffered a semantic phenomenon called "palatalization": the K became a C and in english was pronounced like an european S (confront with latin "kellarium" - german "keller" but english "cell"; or latin "Kaesar" - german "Kaiser" but english "Caesar"). So, to me, both Keltic and Celtic are ok. It is just a matter of what kind of.... word you decide to use: the arcaic form, or the "current" one. "Keltic" may be more historically accurate, but languages are never idle, they keep changing each and every day.....
Posted: 6/19/2008 10:58:43 AM

P: 6/19/2008 11:07:28 AM
purrfectpear Ideal Rock Total Posts: 3,702 Last Post: 11/24/2009 Member Since: 3/31/2008	Date: 6/18/2008 10:41:07 PM Author: Harriet Question from a foreigner (myself): Why is 'Celtics' pronounced 'Seltics' instead of 'Keltics?' I'm driving the other half crazy with my 'mispronunciation.' Because we Americans mispronounce almost every foreign word "Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say and not giving a damn." -Gore Vidal
Posted: 6/19/2008 11:07:28 AM

P: 6/19/2008 11:18:31 AM
Delster Ideal Rock Total Posts: 2,062 Last Post: 11/17/2009 Member Since: 4/22/2007	Harriet I've sometimes wondered that myself! Another example is Notre Dame. That's pronounced entirely differently in the States to how the French would pronounce it... Anyway, on the 'Kelt/Selt' thing, there's a famous soccer club in Glasgow called the Celtic FC, pronounced with an S sound. There's also a newspaper in Ireland called the Anglo Celt, again pronounced with the S sound. But the Celts meaning the ancient tribes who terrified the Romans by charging into battle naked - they always get the K sound
Posted: 6/19/2008 11:18:31 AM

P: 6/19/2008 2:40:21 PM
wishful Ideal Rock Total Posts: 715 Last Post: 10/21/2009 Member Since: 5/20/2008	Date: 6/19/2008 11:07:28 AM Author: purrfectpear Date: 6/18/2008 10:41:07 PM Author: Harriet Question from a foreigner (myself): Why is 'Celtics' pronounced 'Seltics' instead of 'Keltics?' I'm driving the other half crazy with my 'mispronunciation.' Because we Americans mispronounce almost every foreign word Hahaaa so true. ~All things in moderation, including moderation.
Posted: 6/19/2008 2:40:21 PM

P: 6/20/2008 9:23:20 AM
Harriet Ideal Rock Total Posts: 11,800 Last Post: 11/19/2009 Member Since: 7/7/2006	sna77, Thanks! purrfectpear, P.S. You said it, not me. "The greatest experts are only as good as the sum total of what they have seen." (Souren Melikian)
Posted: 6/20/2008 9:23:20 AM

P: 6/20/2008 12:29:57 PM
diamondseeker2006 Ideal Rock Total Posts: 17,609 Last Post: 11/18/2009 Member Since: 1/11/2006	Date: 6/19/2008 11:07:28 AM Author: purrfectpear Date: 6/18/2008 10:41:07 PM Author: Harriet Question from a foreigner (myself): Why is 'Celtics' pronounced 'Seltics' instead of 'Keltics?' I'm driving the other half crazy with my 'mispronunciation.' Because we Americans mispronounce almost every foreign word Actually, I know the answer, and it is correct according to American English pronunciation. When a "c" is followed by e, i, or y, it generally has the /s/ sound. cent cycle cinders ceiling ~~~ When in doubt...don't.~~~
Posted: 6/20/2008 12:29:57 PM

P: 6/20/2008 3:05:52 PM
Burk Ideal Rock Total Posts: 3,260 Last Post: 11/23/2009 Member Since: 5/9/2006	It must have been amazing to be there and witness that! It was fun just watching on TV!!
Posted: 6/20/2008 3:05:52 PM

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